The Shiv Sena on Wednesday expressed concern over the death of sanitation workers in septic tanks and rued that neither the administration nor the society is sensitive towards their plight. The Uddhav Thackeray-led party, heading the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, noted that despite the prevailing "clamour for cleanliness",its not clear if anyone realises the sense of anger in families of sanitation workers who lose their lives while cleaning septic tanks or sewers.

The party made the remarks in the editorial of its mouthpiece 'Saamana' after three sanitation workers died due to suffocation after getting trapped in a septic tank they were cleaning in the premises of a residential high-rise in suburban Govandi on Monday. The Sena alleged neither the administration nor the society is sensitive towards the fact that cleanliness has become 'Yamdoot' (messenger of death as per Hinduism) for the "true ambassadors of cleanliness", the sanitation workers.